Basic butter cake works best with sugar
As an ingredient in baked goods, granulated sugar does much more than sweeten. It assists with browning and pumps up volume. As food-science guru Harold McGee explains in his new...
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Slicing calories from cake
It's high season for baking, so expect to see cooks prowling supermarket aisles for ingredients to sweeten holiday cookies, cakes and pastries. Also expect to see an increasing number of...
Slicing calories from cake
It's high season for baking, so expect to see cooks prowling supermarket aisles for ingredients to sweeten holiday cookies, cakes and pastries. Also expect to see an increasing number of...
A tale of two tables
Embrace the moment. And Mom Nature's ever-changing palette. Leaves crunch underfoot. Ravens and snakes (oh my!) scamper over Jayson Home & Garden's rustic earthenware plates. When the season's first ice-making...
A feast fit for the prairie
The setting for the dinner was a majestic Oak Park home with a Prairie School personality, its broad features embraced by lush green surroundings. It is where Lisa and Ray...
A tale of two tables
Embrace the moment. And Mom Nature's ever-changing palette. Leaves crunch underfoot. Ravens and snakes (oh my!) scamper over Jayson Home & Garden's rustic earthenware plates. When the season's first ice-making...
A rate-cut crash course
So you've been cruising along with affordable car insurance for years thanks to a clean driving record. Then, like an annoying fender bender during slow-moving traffic — bam — your...
A rate-cut crash course
So you've been cruising along with affordable car insurance for years thanks to a clean driving record. Then, like an annoying fender bender during slow-moving traffic — bam — your...
Offbeat Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum
Road-trippers winding through England's countryside inevitably head to the University of Oxford and the city embracing it. There, like Oxonians (students and teachers) before them — say, Sir Walter Raleigh,...
Cook once, eat twice
Ground beef can be a cook's best friend if you put it to work beyond burgers. Enough dishes begin with browned ground beef (Bolognese sauce, shepherd's pie, sloppy Joes, etc.)...